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Japan gets to work on 4G comms
News Communications Research Laboratory, a Tokyo-based institute, says it will invest $1.7m (£1.05m) in a new Singapore facility dedicated to developing vehicle communications systems and 4G, or fourth generation, mobile technology.
[May 6, 2003, 15:47]
French Research Center Improves E-Mail System With Microsoft Exchange Server 2007
White Papers The Marseille-Luminy CRNS-CIML immunology center is a French laboratory that specializes in cancer research. The center relies on its e-mail system, which handles all aspects of research communications, including the dissemination of reports and...
[December 15, 2006, 0:00]
Balloon goes up for rural broadband
News Other project members include BT Exact Technologies and SkyLINC Ltd from England; Swiss organisations Contraves Space AG and the Centre Suisse d'Electronique et de Microtechnique; Italians Carlo Gavazzi Space and EuroConcepts; and the Japanese...
[January 21, 2004, 9:15]
Networks of light build on cellphone tech
News Davis will share the $5m, four-year grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) with the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. The optical CDMA project is part of the California Institute for Information Technology Research...
[November 27, 2002, 15:57]
IBM sews up second Blue Gene deal
News Another new chip is coming as well: Linux Networx announced on Thursday that it sold the US Army Research Laboratory a system that uses 2,132 Xeon processors -- 1,066 of which are for Intel's newly announced 64-bit "CT" extensions.
[February 23, 2004, 9:40]
Tech heroes in line for 'Greatest Briton' award
News Tim Berners-Lee, who invented the World Wide Web in 1989 while working for CERN -- the European Particle Physics Laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland -- has been credited as one of the most influential people of the 20th century.
[August 22, 2002, 12:07]
IBM sets up mobile computing lab in Korea
News The IBM Ubiquitous Computing Laboratory is the second lab set up under the scheme. Intel in August announced it would set up a Korean research centre for digital home technology and wireless communications by the end of the year.
[October 28, 2003, 10:20]
Intel considers European open source lab
News Hardware giant Intel, which has thrown its considerable weight behind the Linux operating system in recent months, said Tuesday that it is looking at creating of a European Linux research laboratory. The first Open Source Development Laboratory...
[March 7, 2001, 9:10]
UK scientists express joy at LHC switch-on
News Dr David Sankey is a particle physicist at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, a research centre in Oxfordshire. Peter Barratt is the communications chief for the Science & Technology Facilities Council (STFC), which distributes UK government...
[September 10, 2008, 13:03]
You've got mail - from Mars
News Others working on the project include members of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Mitre, Global Science and Technology, and SPARTA. Furthermore, the project has drawn the interest -- and funding -- of both NASA and the Defence Advanced Research...
[May 25, 2001, 9:49]
Internet pioneers get US honour
News He is also working on a new set of communication protocols in deep space for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. At the time, we saw this as an exciting technology challenge and research project," Kahn said during an interview while attending the...
[November 7, 2005, 8:15]
Disaster recovery planning must take all angles into account
News Robert Rosen, director of information management at the US Army Research Laboratory, in Adelphi, Md.acknowledged that it's tough to think in these terms but added that it's critical that organisations plan for the worst.
[September 14, 2001, 12:02]
HP sacrifices Linux handhelds
News Their development fell to the Australian laboratory because higher-end Windows CE devices are handled by HP's Singapore research operation. Hewlett-Packard has cancelled three Linux handheld projects with the axing of an Australian research and...
[November 16, 2001, 12:40]
Government: Mobiles are safe
News The MTHR report follows a three-year study released in July by the Electromagnetics and Health Laboratory at the University of Essex, that found no links between mobile base stations and ill health. The 2007 update on progress made by the agency's...
[September 14, 2007, 13:06]
Blue Gene/L cruises past 100 teraflop barrier
News The system, which is in the process of being installed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, already topped a list of the 500 fastest supercomputers last November with a sustained performance of 70.7 teraflops.
[March 24, 2005, 9:15]
Internet2 gets boost from Qwest
News The project acts as a laboratory for companies and researchers developing new technologies and also serves as a blueprint of what the Internet could look like in the future. Internet2 started in 1996 as a group of corporations, universities and...
[October 5, 2001, 10:20]
Ford/Vodafone Telematics review
Reviews However, recent research by the Transport Research Laboratory has suggested that reaction times for drivers using mobiles -- even hands-free ones -- are significantly slower than for those who are under the influence of alcohol.
[March 21, 2002, 23:00]
Intel: Taking the Internet to Mars, and beyond...
News Intel itself, for example, has teamed with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory to use the technology to create an Internet link to Mars. Like nearly all its research efforts, Intel's involvement in proactive computing is geared toward an overriding goal...
[December 4, 2002, 9:18]
Tech world mourns loss of colleagues
News Before his years at Akamai, he worked for IBM's research laboratory in Haifa, Israel. Among those on the four planes hijacked on Tuesday were employees from technology companies Akamai Technologies, Metrocall, MRV Communications, Netegrity, Oracle...
[September 13, 2001, 11:56]
IBM puts Cell chip to work in supercomputer
News The Cell processor is already being used as part of a specially built supercomputer called RoadRunner, commissioned by the Los Alamos National Laboratory. The IBM BladeCenter QS20 has the potential to give us significantly improved performance...
[September 13, 2006, 16:20]
